Oliver Diaz

Associate Professor at UB. He teachs several modules of the BSc in Computer Science, incIuding Computer Vision

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Dr. Oliver Díaz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK (2013) and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2015-2017). He has 15 years international research experience in the field of medical imaging and medical physics, and has participated in 20+ research projects. Dr Díaz is member of several national and international working groups, board member at large of European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) or member of European Society of Radiology Imaging Biomarkers Alliance Subcommittee among other committees. His research’s interests include the use of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence tools applied to healthcare.

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Fréchet Radiomic Distance (FRD): A Versatile Metric for Comparing Medical Imaging Datasets

2026   |   Nicholas Konz, Richard Osuala, Preeti Verma, Yuwen Chen, Hanxue Gu, Haoyu Dong, Yaqian Chen, Andrew Marshall, Lidia Garrucho, Kaisar Kushibar, Daniel M Lang, Gene S Kim, Lars J Grimm, John M Lewin, James S Duncan, Julia A Schnabel, Oliver Diaz, Karim Lekadir, Maciej A Mazurowski   |   Medical Image Analysis, 103943, 2026

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Reporting checklist for foundation and large language models in medical research (REFINE): an international consensus guideline

2026   |   Ismail Mese, Tugba Akinci D’Antonoli, Christian Bluethgen, Keno Bressem, Renato Cuocolo, Akshay Chaudhari, Ali S Tejani, Amanda Isaac, Andrea Ponsiglione, Aymen Meddeb, Bardia Khosravi, Bastien Le Guellec, Charles E Kahn Jr, Chong Hyun Suh, Daniel Pinto Dos Santos, Dow-Mu Koh, Eleftherios Tzanis, Elmar Kotter, Errol Colak, Felipe Kitamura, Felix Busch, Felix Nensa, Guang Yang, Henning Müller, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Jawed Nawabi, Jens Kleesiek, Jingyu Zhong, João Santinha, Johannes Haubold, José Guilherme de Almeida, Karim Lekadir, Kostas Marias, Lara Noelle Reiner, Lena Maier-Hein, Linda Moy, Lisa C Adams, Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Magdalini Paschali, Mana Moassefi, Matthias Dietzel, Merel Huisman, Michael Ingrisch, Michail E Klontzas, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Oliver Diaz, Paulo Kuriki, Philipp Seeböck, Pouria Rouzrokh, Quirin D Strotzer, Seong Ho Park, Shahriar Faghani, Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Su Hwan Kim, Vasantha Kumar Venugopal, Woojin Kim, Burak Kocak   |   Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2026

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The MAMA-MIA Challenge: Advancing Generalizability and Fairness in Breast MRI Tumor Segmentation and Treatment Response Prediction

2026   |   Lidia Garrucho, Smriti Joshi, Kaisar Kushibar, Richard Osuala, Maciej Bobowicz, Xavier Bargalló, Paulius Jaruševičius, Kai Geissler, Raphael Schäfer, Muhammad Alberb, Tony Xu, Anne Martel, Daniel Sleiman, Navchetan Awasthi, Hadeel Awwad, Joan C Vilanova, Robert Martí, Daan Schouten, Jeong Hoon Lee, Mirabela Rusu, Eleonora Poeta, Luisa Vargas, Eliana Pastor, Maria A Zuluaga, Jessica Kächele, Dimitrios Bounias, Alexandra Ertl, Katarzyna Gwoździewicz, Maria-Laura Cosaka, Pasant M Abo-Elhoda, Sara W Tantawy, Shorouq S Sakrana, Norhan O Shawky-Abdelfatah, Amr Muhammad Abdo-Salem, Androniki Kozana, Eugen Divjak, Gordana Ivanac, Katerina Nikiforaki, Michail E Klontzas, Rosa García-Dosdá, Meltem Gulsun-Akpinar, Oğuz Lafcı, Carlos Martín-Isla, Oliver Díaz, Laura Igual, Karim Lekadir   |   arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01250, 2026

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From data to treatment plan: An AI-driven path for automated breast radiotherapy planning

2026   |   P Gallego, E Ambroa, J Pérez-Alija, JC Julià, N Jornet, A Matas, C Anson, A Mera, N Tejedor, H Vivancos, A Ruiz, M Barceló, A Dominguez, V Riu, J Roda, P Carrasco, S Balocco, O Díaz   |   Journal of applied clinical medical physics 27 (3), e70491, 2026

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A large-scale multicenter breast cancer DCE-MRI benchmark dataset with expert segmentations

2025   |   Lidia Garrucho, Kaisar Kushibar, Claire-Anne Reidel, Smriti Joshi, Richard Osuala, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Maciej Bobowicz, Javier Del Riego, Alessandro Catanese, Katarzyna Gwoździewicz, Maria-Laura Cosaka, Pasant M Abo-Elhoda, Sara W Tantawy, Shorouq S Sakrana, Norhan O Shawky-Abdelfatah, Amr Muhammad Abdo Salem, Androniki Kozana, Eugen Divjak, Gordana Ivanac, Katerina Nikiforaki, Michail E Klontzas, Rosa García-Dosdá, Meltem Gulsun-Akpinar, Oğuz Lafcı, Ritse Mann, Carlos Martín-Isla, Fred Prior, Kostas Marias, Martijn PA Starmans, Fredrik Strand, Oliver Díaz, Laura Igual, Karim Lekadir   |   Scientific Data 12 (1), 453, 2025

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Evaluation metrics in medical imaging AI: fundamentals, pitfalls, misapplications, and recommendations

2025   |   Burak Kocak, Michail E Klontzas, Arnaldo Stanzione, Aymen Meddeb, Aydın Demircioğlu, Christian Bluethgen, Keno Bressem, Lorenzo Ugga, Nathaniel Mercaldo, Oliver Díaz, Renato Cuocolo   |   European Journal of Radiology Artificial Intelligence, 100030, 2025

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Simulating dynamic tumor contrast enhancement in breast MRI using conditional generative adversarial networks

2025   |   Richard Osuala, Smriti Joshi, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Lidia Garrucho, Walter HL Pinaya, Daniel M Lang, Julia A Schnabel, Oliver Diaz, Karim Lekadir   |   Journal of Medical Imaging 12 (S2), S22014-S22014, 2025

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Stakeholder engagement: the path to trustworthy AI in healthcare

2025   |   Marina Camacho, Joan Perramon, Xènia Puig-Bosch, Vien Ngoc Dang, Oliver Díaz, Karim Lekadir   |   Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging, 471-493, 2025

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Explanation and Elaboration with Examples for METRICS (METRICS-E3): an initiative from the EuSoMII Radiomics Auditing Group

2025   |   Burak Kocak, Angela Ammirabile, Ilaria Ambrosini, Tugba Akinci D’Antonoli, Alessandra Borgheresi, Armando Ugo Cavallo, Roberto Cannella, Gennaro D’Anna, Oliver Díaz, Fabio M Doniselli, Salvatore Claudio Fanni, Samuele Ghezzo, Kevin BW Groot Lipman, Michail E Klontzas, Andrea Ponsiglione, Arnaldo Stanzione, Matthaios Triantafyllou, Federica Vernuccio, Renato Cuocolo   |   Insights into Imaging 16 (1), 175, 2025

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Federated nnU-Net for privacy-preserving medical image segmentation

2025   |   Grzegorz Skorupko, Fotios Avgoustidis, Carlos Martín-Isla, Lidia Garrucho, Dimitri A Kessler, Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Oliver Díaz, Maciej Bobowicz, Katarzyna Gwoździewicz, Xavier Bargalló, Paulius Jarus̆evic̆ius, Richard Osuala, Kaisar Kushibar, Karim Lekadir   |   Scientific Reports 15 (1), 38312, 2025

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Breast radiotherapy planning: A decision‐making framework using deep learning

2025   |   Pedro Gallego, Eva Ambroa, Jaime PérezAlija, Nuria Jornet, Cristina Anson, Natalia Tejedor, Helena Vivancos, Agust Ruiz, Marta Barceló, Alejandro Dominguez, Victor Riu, Javier Roda, Pablo Carrasco, Simone Balocco, Oliver Díaz   |   Medical Physics 52 (3), 1798-1809, 2025

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A review of methods for trustworthy AI in medical imaging: The FUTURE-AI Guidelines

2025   |   Haridimos Kondylakis, Richard Osuala, Xénia Puig-Bosch, Noussair Lazrak, Oliver Diaz, Kaisar Kushibar, Ioanna Chouvarda, Stefanie Charalambous, Martijn PA Starmans, Sara Colantonio, Nikos Tachos, Smriti Joshi, Henry C Woodruff, Zohaib Salahuddin, Gianna Tsakou, Susanna Aussó, Leonor Cerdá Alberich, Nickolas Papanikolaou, Philippe Lambin, Kostas Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis, Dimitrios I Fotiadis, Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Karim Lekadir   |   IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025

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Deep learning-based model for difficult transfemoral access prediction compared with human assessment in stroke thrombectomy

2025   |   Pere Canals, Alvaro Garcia-Tornel, Manuel Requena, Magda Jabłońska, Jiahui Li, Simone Balocco, Oliver Díaz, Alejandro Tomasello, Marc Ribo   |   Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 17 (6), 653-659, 2025

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Development of Method to Predict Career Choice of IT Students in Kazakhstan by Applying Machine Learning Methods

2025   |   Bauyrzhan Berlikozha, Azamat Serek, Tamara Zhukabayeva, Azamat Zhamanov, Oliver Dias   |   Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) 6 (1), 426-436, 2025

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Segmentation variability and radiomics stability for predicting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer subtype using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2025   |   Isabella Cama, Alejandro Guzmán, Cristina Campi, Michele Piana, Karim Lekadir, Sara Garbarino, Oliver Díaz   |   Journal of Medical Imaging 12 (5), 054501-054501, 2025

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Clinically-guided Data Synthesis for Laryngeal Lesion Detection

2025   |   Chiara Baldini, Kaisar Kushibar, Richard Osuala, Simone Balocco, Oliver Diaz, Karim Lekadir, Leonardo S Mattos   |   International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted …, 2025

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A Wearable Electronic Band for Stress Understanding Using Machine Learning

2025   |   P Subathra, S Malarvizhi, Oliver Diaz, Shantanu Patil   |   IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025

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Optimization and validation of a mechanical compression model for digital breast phantoms in mammography and tomosynthesis simulations

2025   |   Gustavo Pacheco, Koen Michielsen, Eloy García, Oliver Díaz, Ioannis Sechopoulos   |   Medical physics 52 (7), e17980, 2025

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Assessing Cancer Presence in Prostate MRI Using Multi-Encoder Cross-Attention Networks

2025   |   Avtantil Dimitriadis, Grigorios Kalliatakis, Richard Osuala, Dimitri Kessler, Simone Mazzetti, Daniele Regge, Oliver Diaz, Karim Lekadir, Dimitrios Fotiadis, Manolis Tsiknakis, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, ProCAncer-I Consortium, Kostas Marias   |   Journal of Imaging 11 (4), 98, 2025

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Generating Synthetic Data in Cancer Research

2025   |     |   Trustworthy AI in Cancer Imaging Research, 81-101, 2025

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